The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-04-07
Local DEVELOPMENT.


developing the county contiguous TO its
main line, by lat raj roads, IS doing much
for Virginia lis we'll rs The treasury of the
| railroad 1t Is reaching out j Southwest
| Virginia into the mineral districts, and
| drawing profitable trade from every YER
ture. The road from New River 10 po-
cahontas opens Up The richest eel king ceal
| district in the United States. Its extern
sion OH through lie local belt to the Ohio
| River is row III progress. The Cripple
Greek branch pcnetrates IL marvelously
rich iroE. Ital aud copper section, ana an
other brancl, To Reed Island, will expose
similarly rel able freightage. It's policy
is thus indicated and the returns are shown
in the instructive figures given below ::
| In 1880 the through freight, principally
cotton, was SO per cent of a total OF 47S,
I 953 tons, the entire local freight being on
/ ly 396 ,267 tons, and under policy which
! discouraged local traffic the increase in
gross earn ings had been in ten years only
per cent. In 1881 the policy of develop
| ing local interests was adopted and has
the local tonnage had increased from 1885,,
1857 tons in 1880 to 1,266, Sol tons in 1886,
an increase of 1927 per CT. and the through
| tonnage increased from 1872 2S6 tons in
| 1880 to $50, 266 tons in 1856, an increase of
So per cent. The owners of the road at
| tribute their enlarged profits to the changed
policy of the company in its treatment of
local interests. and the figures carry with
them lesson by which some other roads
may profit. These returne will be largely
augmented as the industries incident to
the developments it is encouraging are es-
tablished. AS yet this work is in its in
fancy. In a few years the growth OF the
country it passes through and which is
accommodated by its lateral lines, will yield
a freightage that cannot now be compu-
ted. The Norfolk s. Western is real
benefactor to Virginia, and will prove an
important agency in the regeneration of
the old Commonwealth.
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/ Last Thursday well dressed man, of
splendid physical proportions, with plenty
of money in his pocket, Was found dying
in the streets at Andulasit, near P.liladel-
phia. No one knew him, nor had any one
seen him before in that neighb0rhood.
After death he was taken to the Morgue,
and there the corpse was visited by thou
sands of people, many of them thinking to
! find, possibly, a son or brother or friend
who is missing.
At Railway, N. j.. last week, a hand
some girl. aged about % years, tastefully
dressed, and all the indications about her
person of refinement and good breeding.
was found on the street dead with herthroa
cut No one seemed to know her. and she,
too, has been visited by thousands of per-
sons from the neigl boring towns and cities,
in the expectation of finding u missing
daughter or sister or relative. The two
instances testify to the large number of
men and women who have disappeared.
with 20 traces Of their whereabouts or
fate. In each case the utmost solicitude
and anxiety have been manifested by the
parties looking for lost friends Or relatives,
and in some instances grief and agony were
depicted on the c0untenances of the search
ers as they scanned and scrutiniZed the
features CT the dead. But in neither case
has there been satisfactory recognition.
In that of the girl. several were confident
they recognized her, but inquiry by the po-
lice discovered living the persons that were
taken to be the murdered young lady.
Every heart knows its own sorrow. and
how many SORROWS there are that are shut
up in agonized souls, these two evidences
Illustrate.